What is Man?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him? Psalms 8:4

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Month: November, 2008

What Do You Do With a 366Mghz Laptop?

19 November, 2008 (18:41) | Hardware, Software, Technology | No comments

I had an old Thinkpad 570 laptop in the closet, 366Mghz, 192 megabytes of ram, 6 gig hard disk, Windows 2000. It has a dock, but without it, it’s got 1 usb 1.0 port and no optical drive. The 5000 series was at one time a line of premium ultra-portables with a sterling reputation, and [...]

Laptop Power Socket Repair

15 November, 2008 (13:12) | Voices for Christ | No comments

I love JB Waterweld.  The stuff is like duct-tape for men. When I was in the Navy I used it for everything from packing and and tapping a stripped out bolt hole to fabricating parts for a biometric lock.
Yesterday I fixed a laptop for dad that had I promised to fix a while ago [...]

How to Become an Ex-Pirate

7 November, 2008 (20:31) | Software, Technology | No comments

I used to pirate software. Until 2007, every piece of software I used was either pirated, free, or open source. Music wasn’t spared, either. At one point I had nearly 80 gigs of music, most ripped from friend’s CD collections or downloaded. I could write a whole post on how I justified piracy. I came [...]